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The concluded analysis of the undergoing trends in the food processing sector shows that the partial indicators used point to a major scale change. The adverse situation in a downturn is caused by the accumulation of unfavourable level of the most partial indicators. In the future, the results of such research could be applied to predict turning points in the state of the economy. Additional advantage is an avoidance of the describing an economic situation with many indicators, whose joint effects define the state of the food processing sector. At the moment, the constructed synthetic measure may be used for ex post analysis of the situation of the food processing sector.